[CentOS] [OT] OSX-10.9.3 cd ~'/ problem with spaces'

Tue Jun 3 16:34:29 UTC 2014
Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com>

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014, James B. Byrne wrote:
>Apologies for this OT post.  I need some help debugging a bash script.  It
>just happens to be provided by Apple Inc.
>
>In a terminal session under OSX-10.9.3 I want do do this:
>
>cd ~/'Library/Application Support'

Works for me on my OS X 10.8.5 Macbook Pro, xterm under xQuartz
and under the Terminal.app.

>Which is a simple enough request.  However, OSX returns: cd
>/users/byrnejb/Library/Application: No such file or directory.  The space
>evidently acts as a delimiter to cd even though the path is quoted.
>
>However this:
>
>ls -l ~/'Library/Application Support'

Perhaps you have 'cd' as an alias or a function which loses the
quotes when passing to the real cd?

Bill
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